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NITED STATES HENRY M. DEXTER, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

ADVERTISING OR ORDER DESK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,856, dated November 13, 1888.

(Modeld To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY M. DEXTER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of YVashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Advertising and Order Desks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the desk. Fig. 2 is a crosssection, and Fig. 3 is a top view thereof.

My invention, whereby a glass-covered advertising-space, card-rack, tablet-holder, and locked order-box are combined in one device as an order-desk, is intended for the use and convenience of persons and firms who may desire to save the expense of agencies and adver tise their business by locating the desks conspicuously at stores, hotels, and other public places, where they may become the medium 7 for the deposit and collection of business orders and messages, and also for the use and convenience of professional men, artisans, mechanics, and others who are necessarily much absent from their places of business,by attach ing the desks to the entrances or walls of said business places or elsewhere thereabout, thereby avoiding the undesirable features attending the use of the primitive slate for such purposes.

The desk is constructed substantially as illustrated in the drawings, to wit: A desk-table, A, is mounted on bracketsupports K K, and hasa back board, B,with a rounded top holding the table and supports, and has a slot, G, for dropping orders into the box F, and bears a tabletholder, E, suitably inclined, as shown in Fig. 2, with cleats e e for holding the tabletbase in place. Back of the table A is the card-rack D, and a space, H, on the backboard, B, to receive advertisements. Over this space H is a glass cover held in a metal frame, 0, hinged below at c 0 for opening to insert or change the advertisingsheets. The pin or catch 1) serves to fasten and keep the glass cover in place. Below the table A, and between the side brackets, K K, is the order-box F,with a door opening outward and downward on hinges ff, and provided with a look, f, above.

Having fully described my invention, What I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent 1s- 1. An advertising and order desk combining in one device a back board, B, having an advertising-space, H, a desk-table, A, a cardrack, D, at the back of the table A,below the advertising-space, an inclined tablet holder supported on the table A, and the order-box F, located beneath the table A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the table A, having the slot G and the inclined tablet-holder, brackets for supporting the table, and a hinged door, F, forming an order-box beneath the table, and a back board, B, having a glass-covcred advertising-space, as set forth.

3. In an order-desk, the combination of a table, A, having an. inclined tablet-holder, a slot through the said table, and an order-box located beneath the table,having a hinged door provided with a lock, substantially as set forth.

HENRY M. DEXTER.

\Vitnesses:

J. H. GRAY, N. DUMoN'r. 

